Garth Mullins is a Canadian radio producer, activist, methadone user,^[1] and musician. He is the host of the Crackdown podcast and a board member of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.

His podcast won The Canadian Hillman Prize in 2020.

Mullins grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in the 1970s.^[2]

He was bullied in school about his albinism.^[3][2] During high school he worked in banking and construction; after high school he worked in a mine in Northwest Territories.^[2] Being blind^[3] was a barrier to employment opportunities, prompting him to return to studies at the University of Victoria.^[2] While studying, he hosted a radio show called The War Measures Act and took heroin for the first time at the age of 19.^[2] After graduating from the University of Victoria, he studied political sociology at the London School of Economics, while writing articles for the Vancouver Sun.^[2]

Mullins has hosted the monthly^[4] Crackdown podcast since 2019.^[1] His team won The Canadian Hillman Prize in 2020.^[5]

A previous intravenous user of heroin,^[5] Mullins is a user of methadone.^[4] He speaks about his own use of drugs on the Crackdown podcast hoping to inprove public education.^[4] He serves on the board of directors of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.^[6] Mullins describes how he sees the war on drugs as still affecting people in contemporary times.^[1] He is an advocate for the legalisation of street drugs,^[6] and has campaigned against the planned expansion in scope of Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying permissibility to include people with disabilities.^[3]

Mullins performs as a musician in the band Legally Blind.^[7][5]

• Official website